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Indigenous Fire Stewardship
National
- Fire Stewardship: Upholding Indigenous Sovereignty
- Blazing the Trail: Celebrating Indigenous Fire Stewardship
- Worksheets to Create a Cultural Burn Pathway
- REDfire Lab
- First Nations Wildfire Evacuation partnership
- First Nations Wildfire Evacuations: A Guide for Communities and External Agencies
- Giving Voice to Cultural Safety of Indigenous Wildland Firefighters in Canada
- Indigenous Fire Stewardship (practitioner infosheet / RAD Network)
- Braiding Indigenous and Western Knowledge for Climate-Adapted Forests: An Ecocultural State of Science Report
- Spreading like wildfire: The rising threat of extraordinary landscape fires
- National Indigenous Fire Safety Council
British Columbia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
The Territories (the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut)
Academic Articles
Indigenous Fire Stewardship & Cultural Burning Practices
2025
- Indigenous stewardship rights and opportunities to recenter Indigenous fire
- A tale of two fire systems: Indigenous fire stewardship in British Columbia and California
- Indigenous fire stewardship shaped North American Great Landscapes
2024
- Cooperative community wildfire response: Pathways to partnership and equitable practice
- Revitalising Indigenous cultural fire practice: benefits and partnerships
2023
2022
- The right to burn: barriers and opportunities for Indigenous-led fire stewardship in Canada
- Centering Indigenous voices: The role of fire in the boreal forest of North America — Christianson, Sutherland, Moola, et al.
- The contribution of Indigenous stewardship to an historical mixed-severity fire regime in British Columbia, Canada
- Not All Fire is Bad: Indigenous Fire Stewardship in Canada (practitiohttps://doi.org/10.5558/tfc2022-001ner report)
- Western Canada’s new wildfire reality needs a new approach to fire management DOI
- Rebuilding Yunesit’in Fire (Qwen) Stewardship: Learnings from the land DOI
2020–2019
- Indigenous Fire Stewardship (book chapter / encyclopedia entry)
- Indigenous fire stewardship: synthesis report (US/Canada synthesis)
- Goal setting and Indigenous fire management: A holistic perspective
Older
Fire Governance, Policy, and Partnerships
Wildfire Impacts & Evacuations in Indigenous Communities
2024
- Wildland fire evacuation in Canada from 1980 to 2021
- Wildfire management and evacuation in Indigenous communities: a scoping review (Canada & US)
- The 2023 wildfires in British Columbia, Canada: impacts, response, and lessons
- Wildfires are spreading fast in Canada—we must strengthen forests for the future
2021
- Evacuating First Nations during wildfires in Canada
- Situating Indigenous knowledge for resilience in fire-dependent social-ecological systems
2021
- Evacuating First Nations during wildfires in Canada — McGee, Polishocki & Christianson (Fire Safety Journal) ScienceDirect
2020
- Evacuating a First Nation due to wildfire smoke: The case of Dene Tha’ First Nation — Mottershead, McGee & Christianson Hep Journals
2019
- Residents’ wildfire evacuation actions in Mishkeegogamang Ojibway Nation, Ontario, Canada — McGee, Nation & Christianson ResearchGate
- Evacuation preparedness and emergency evacuation challenges in Indigenous communities (Sandy Lake First Nation)
Publisher link varies; see journal. Google Sites - Indigenous elders’ experiences and coping during hazard evacuation (Sandy Lake First Nation) — Asfaw, McGee & Christianson (Society & Nat Resour)
Publisher link varies; see journal details. Google Sites - Wildfire evacuation experiences of Whitefish Lake First Nation 459 (Natural Hazards) — Christianson, McGee & Whitefish Lake First Nation
Publisher link varies; see journal website. Google Sites - The role of disaster volunteering in Indigenous communities (Environmental Hazards) — Yumagulova, Phibbs, Kenney, Yellow Old Woman‑Munro, Christianson & McGee
Publisher link varies; see journal. Google Sites - Impacts of Wildfire on Children